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Wowza! I'm not usually one to complain about costs, but some of these hotels are out of their mind with what they are asking. Maybe I was spoiled with super cheap hotels last summer. Some of them are also including tricky cancellation policies.

An example, the Courtyard in Kennesaw wants $270/night for the cancel anytime rate (compared to $220/night with the "you are screwed if you need a change" rate) for the first weekend in June.

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Try Air B&B. Not sure what's available now, but several years ago I rented a place in Cartersville for two months.  It was the summer between son's HS jr & Sr years, and he played a ton of tournaments in Lakepoint area.  Got an entire basement studio with private entrance and hot tub for < $500/mo.  We live 3 hours away, and he actually spent a good chunk of the time there by himself during the weeks when we were home at work.

Wowza! I'm not usually one to complain about costs, but some of these hotels are out of their mind with what they are asking. Maybe I was spoiled with super cheap hotels last summer. Some of them are also including tricky cancellation policies.

An example, the Courtyard in Kennesaw wants $270/night for the cancel anytime rate (compared to $220/night with the "you are screwed if you need a change" rate) for the first weekend in June.

Apologies if you're not a drinking man, but I advise you to have a couple of stiff cocktails before you shop for your rental car.

I will agree on the previous post.  We were looking for wife plane, car, and hotels for this weekend in College Station.  When flight is the cheapest of the three, life is bad.  The cheapest car rental was $67 a day with several add ons (put there by them not us) the cost was $412 picking up on Friday returning on Monday.  I can't imagine a week long rental.

Can't help much with the car rental but I will triple down on Airbnb... recently found a decent place 20 min. out of Hilton Head for $40 while my brother paid well over $300 for a resort room close to the beach, this even on a weekend.  We also found a place for $65 at a stopover in Columbia that included breakfast for both my wife and I, was in a very nice home in a safe neighborhood.  Both dog friendly, no less.  You have to watch the extra fees but deals can be found!

@cabbagedad posted:

Can't help much with the car rental but I will triple down on Airbnb... recently found a decent place 20 min. out of Hilton Head for $40 while my brother paid well over $300 for a resort room close to the beach, this even on a weekend.  We also found a place for $65 at a stopover in Columbia that included breakfast for both my wife and I, was in a very nice home in a safe neighborhood.  Both dog friendly, no less.  You have to watch the extra fees but deals can be found!

What are the typical extra fees to watch for? Do leave your dog there if you go out to dinner or do you always have your dog with you? I’d be afraid mine would chew something, or bark and cry until we returned.

What are the typical extra fees to watch for? Do leave your dog there if you go out to dinner or do you always have your dog with you? I’d be afraid mine would chew something, or bark and cry until we returned.

With Airbnb, VRBO and others, there is the stated nightly rate and then, the host has liberty to ad other fees such as cleaning, service, occupancy taxes and other, etc.  You usually have to go into the listing to see the extra fees.  Most are minimal and/or reasonable.  Some are excessive.  I like that airbnb shows the total (less Airbnb take) as a sub price on the original listing page.

With pets, it is case by case and you would want to have some dialog with the host.  I think it would be unusual to expect to leave a pet unless you have a crate setup or something similar.  Our lab is extremely well trained and crate trained.  Still, we are very much inclined to take her with us for the day.  We have seen (but not used) on rare occasion a set up where the host also offers to pet-sit.  If there is any concern that your pet would chew or bark, you have your answer, IMO.

Crud. We usually drive as the furthest tournaments are 8 or 9 hours away. There is one this summer in Greenville that we were planning on renting a car for a few days. After seeing a couple posts I decided to look around. I think I'm going to look into having my car shipped to Greenville instead of renting!

If you plan it right you can make Greenville in 8-9 hours.

I had been looking at hotels for trip to East Cobb in June. We initially booked a hotel in Marietta. Not an ideal price, but not a deal breaker either. But then I found a house on AirBnb that was much cheaper and in a less congested area. Sold! Not having to fight 50 other families for a washing machine had me sold right away. I am hoping when we go back for the WWBA tournaments we can grab the same house.

For rental cars, I consider myself lucky. My company has a contract with National. So we have rates locked in plus Emerald Club access. So I have been able to book cars at pre-covid prices.

@ARCEKU21 posted:

I had been looking at hotels for trip to East Cobb in June. We initially booked a hotel in Marietta. Not an ideal price, but not a deal breaker either. But then I found a house on AirBnb that was much cheaper and in a less congested area. Sold! Not having to fight 50 other families for a washing machine had me sold right away. I am hoping when we go back for the WWBA tournaments we can grab the same house.

For rental cars, I consider myself lucky. My company has a contract with National. So we have rates locked in plus Emerald Club access. So I have been able to book cars at pre-covid prices.

Where is the AirBnB you found located? I saw a couple solid rentals in Kennesaw. The early June event is at Lakepoint, so that would be pretty convenient for us.

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